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Charles Leo "Gabby" Hartnett,also nicknamed "Old Tomato Face",was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career in Major League Baseball as a catcher with the Chicago Cubs,from 1922 to 1940. He spent the final season of his career as a player-coach with the New York Giants in 1941. After his playing career,Hartnett continued his involvement in baseball as a coach and as a minor league manager.
In Major League Baseball (MLB),the 500 home run club is a group of batters who have hit 500 or more regular-season home runs in their careers. There are twenty-eight players who are members of the 500 home run club. Seven 500 home run club members—Hank Aaron,Willie Mays,Eddie Murray,Rafael Palmeiro,Albert Pujols,Alex Rodriguez and Miguel Cabrera—are also members of the 3,000 hit club.
The 3,000-hit club is the group of 33 batters who have collected 3,000 or more regular-season hits in their careers in Major League Baseball (MLB). Reaching 3,000 hits has,"long considered the greatest measure of superior bat handling" and is often described as a guarantee of eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
In Major League Baseball (MLB),the 3,000 strikeout club is the group of 19 pitchers who have struck out 3,000 or more batters in their careers. Walter Johnson became the first member in 1923,and was the only one until Bob Gibson joined in 1974. The most recent addition is Max Scherzer,who joined on September 12,2021. The group includes three left-handed pitchers:CC Sabathia,Steve Carlton,and Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson reached the mark with the fewest games pitched and innings pitched. The Minnesota Twins were the first of four franchises to see multiple pitchers record their 3,000th strikeout:Walter Johnson in 1923 and Bert Blyleven in 1986. The other teams with multiple members are the Chicago Cubs,the New York Yankees,and the Houston Astros. César Gerónimo is the only player struck out by two pitchers for their 3,000th strikeout:Gibson in 1974 and Ryan in 1980. Ten 3,000-strikeout pitchers are also members of the 300-win club. Seven members were named to the All-Century Team,a list of MLB's best 100 players;fans later elected four of them as starters. Thirteen members of the club also won a Cy Young Award in their careers.
In Major League Baseball,the 300-win club is the group of pitchers who have won 300 or more games. Twenty-four pitchers have reached this milestone. This list does not include Bobby Mathews who won 297 in the major leagues plus several more in 1869 and 1870 before the major leagues were established in 1871. The San Francisco Giants are the only franchise to see four players reach 300 wins while on their roster:Tim Keefe in the Players' League,Christy Mathewson and Mickey Welch while the team was in New York,and most recently Randy Johnson. Early in the history of professional baseball,many of the rules favored the pitcher over the batter;the distance pitchers threw to home plate was shorter than today,and pitchers were able to use foreign substances to alter the direction of the ball. Moreover,pitchers started games far more frequently than modern pitchers do;in the second half of the 1884 season Old Hoss Radbourn started every other game. The first player to win 300 games was Pud Galvin in 1888. Seven pitchers recorded all or the majority of their career wins in the 19th century:Galvin,Cy Young,Kid Nichols,Keefe,John Clarkson,Charles Radbourn,and Welch. Four more pitchers joined the club in the first quarter of the 20th century:Mathewson,Walter Johnson,Eddie Plank,and Grover Cleveland Alexander. Young is the all-time leader in wins with 511,a mark that is considered unbreakable. If a modern-day pitcher won 20 games per season for 25 seasons,he would still be 11 games short of Young's mark.
In baseball,a utility player or superutilityman is a player who typically has the ability to play at every position. They are put in to provide improved defense when their team is winning.
In Major League Baseball (MLB),the 300 save club is the group of pitchers who have recorded 300 or more regular-season saves in their careers. Most commonly a relief pitcher earns a save by being the final pitcher of a game in which his team is winning by three or fewer runs and pitching at least one inning without losing the lead. The final pitcher of a game can earn a save by getting at least one batter out to end the game with the winning run on base,at bat,or on deck,or by pitching the last three innings without relinquishing the lead,regardless of score. The statistic was created by Jerome Holtzman in 1959 to "measure the effectiveness of relief pitchers" and was adopted as an official statistic by MLB in 1969. The save has been retroactively measured for past pitchers where applicable. Hoyt Wilhelm retired in 1972 and recorded just 31 saves from 1969 onwards,for example,but holds 228 total career saves.
The 1992 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 111th season in St. Louis,Missouri and its 101st season in the National League. The Cardinals went 83–79 during the season and finished third in the National League East,13 games behind the NL East champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
Baseball-Reference is a website providing baseball statistics for every player in Major League Baseball history. The site is often used by major media organizations and baseball broadcasters as a source for statistics. It offers a variety of advanced baseball sabermetrics in addition to traditional baseball "counting stats".
